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Mr. Martin, from a select committee, made the following re-port
:
Mr. Speaker:
The committee of one from each judicial circuit, to whom was
referred Senate bill No. 102, with instructions, have had the same
under consideration, and direct me to report said bill back to the
House and recommend that the same be amended by striKintr out
all from the words, ''be amended to read as follows," and insert
the following, and when so amended to recommend its passage
:
For the purpose of electing judges for the court of common
pleas the State shall be divided into districts as follows : Posey,
Vanderburgh, Warrick and Gibson shall be a district; Knox, Da-viess,
Pike and Martin, a district; Spencer, Perry, Dubois, Craw-lord
and Orange, a district; Harrison, Floyd, Washington, Clark
and Scott, a district; Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Ripley and
Dearborn, a district; Franklin, Fayette, Union and Wayne, a dis-trict
; Jackson, Jennings, Bartholomew and Lawrence, a district;
jMorgan, Johnson, Shelby, Brown and Monroe, a district; Green,
Clay, Owen and Putnam, a district; Vigo, Parke and Sullivan, a
district; Rush, Henry, Hancock, Madison and Decatur, a district.;
Marion, Hendricks and Boone, a district; Montgomery, Vermil-lion,
Fountain and Warren, a district ; Hamilton, Tipton, Clinton,
Howard and Grant, a district; Tippecanoe, Benton, White and
Carroll, a district ; Lake, Porter, Jasper, Starke and Pulaski, a
district ; Laporte, St. Joseph, Mar^haII and Elkhart, a district
;
Randolph, Delaware, Jay and Blackford, a district ; Lagrange,
Steuben, Dekalb, Noble and Whitley, a district; Allen^, Adams,
Huntington and Wells, a distiict; Cass, Miami, Fulton, Kosciusko
and Wabash, a district, in each of which districts there shall be
elected a common pleas judge, on the second Tuesday in October,
A. D., 1S60, and every fourth year thereafter.
Sec. "Z. The annual salary of the judges of the court of com-mon
pleas shall be one thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. The court of common pleas shall sit at the court house
of the proper county, and shall be held three terms a year, begin-ning
with the first Monday in January annually, and then the first
Monday of every fourth month thereafter; Provided, That if the
circuit court of said county shall be in session at the time, the
common pleas shall be held on the Monday succeeding the term of
the circuit court.
Sec. 4. Sections twenty-nine and thirty-eight of an act enti-tled
"an act to establish courts of common pleas, and defining the
jurisdiction and duties of, and providing compensation for the
judges thereof," be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent
the judges now acting from serving as such in the districts in which

SIO
Mr. Martin, from a select committee, made the following re-port
:
Mr. Speaker:
The committee of one from each judicial circuit, to whom was
referred Senate bill No. 102, with instructions, have had the same
under consideration, and direct me to report said bill back to the
House and recommend that the same be amended by striKintr out
all from the words, ''be amended to read as follows," and insert
the following, and when so amended to recommend its passage
:
For the purpose of electing judges for the court of common
pleas the State shall be divided into districts as follows : Posey,
Vanderburgh, Warrick and Gibson shall be a district; Knox, Da-viess,
Pike and Martin, a district; Spencer, Perry, Dubois, Craw-lord
and Orange, a district; Harrison, Floyd, Washington, Clark
and Scott, a district; Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Ripley and
Dearborn, a district; Franklin, Fayette, Union and Wayne, a dis-trict
; Jackson, Jennings, Bartholomew and Lawrence, a district;
jMorgan, Johnson, Shelby, Brown and Monroe, a district; Green,
Clay, Owen and Putnam, a district; Vigo, Parke and Sullivan, a
district; Rush, Henry, Hancock, Madison and Decatur, a district.;
Marion, Hendricks and Boone, a district; Montgomery, Vermil-lion,
Fountain and Warren, a district ; Hamilton, Tipton, Clinton,
Howard and Grant, a district; Tippecanoe, Benton, White and
Carroll, a district ; Lake, Porter, Jasper, Starke and Pulaski, a
district ; Laporte, St. Joseph, Mar^haII and Elkhart, a district
;
Randolph, Delaware, Jay and Blackford, a district ; Lagrange,
Steuben, Dekalb, Noble and Whitley, a district; Allen^, Adams,
Huntington and Wells, a distiict; Cass, Miami, Fulton, Kosciusko
and Wabash, a district, in each of which districts there shall be
elected a common pleas judge, on the second Tuesday in October,
A. D., 1S60, and every fourth year thereafter.
Sec. "Z. The annual salary of the judges of the court of com-mon
pleas shall be one thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. The court of common pleas shall sit at the court house
of the proper county, and shall be held three terms a year, begin-ning
with the first Monday in January annually, and then the first
Monday of every fourth month thereafter; Provided, That if the
circuit court of said county shall be in session at the time, the
common pleas shall be held on the Monday succeeding the term of
the circuit court.
Sec. 4. Sections twenty-nine and thirty-eight of an act enti-tled
"an act to establish courts of common pleas, and defining the
jurisdiction and duties of, and providing compensation for the
judges thereof," be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent
the judges now acting from serving as such in the districts in which